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On 2/15/04 5:40 PM, in article ,
"ASmith1946" > wrote:

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>> Still, the life of a primitive person is nasty brutish and short.
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> On the contrary, most "primitive" people had/have a relatively decent life.
> Take the San (Bushmen) of southern Africa. They have lived in one of the most
> inhospitable places on the earth for almost tens of thousands of years. Today,
> the men hunt on average 6 hours a day. That's it.
>
> Best evidence on other hunter/gather societies is that they had life spans of
> up to 50 years. This was not duplicated in "civilized" societies until about
> 1900.

I know that in Europe and most of the world that, including infant
mortality, that 35 was about the average age of death. Without infant
mortality it was about 45-50 or so.

There is something about hunter-gatherer life that appeals.